Top 845 Quotes & Sayings by Belgian Authors - Page 4

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

You get a good win, you take extra confidence into the next game and it shows in the result. You end up with a snowball effect. You are in a rhythm where everything is going well. But, if you start losing games, one thing can lead to another in a bad way and, if you begin to believe nothing is going for you, it can be dangerous.

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

I prefer to talk about our problems, to be proud of them, in place of trying to hide them. Because you can't. And I prefer to dance, to smile on it, to laugh on it.

When you're part of a World Cup, it's always now or never.

I am a rational person. I am moderate. I am humble.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Nobody's more important than the team.

In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

I've always done things my way.

What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

I always try to give everything for the team, whether I start or don't start.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

I chose China because I needed something new. Other clubs in Europe and Qatar were also a possibility, but the adventure at Guangzhou was the most interesting.

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

I always like to assist more than scoring: it gives me another feeling; I cannot explain it.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

Drogba is more of a hold-up player, a target man. I prefer to have ball to feet and run in behind.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

I've made a lot of progress. As a man, mentally, but also physically. And tactically, too. That's a given with a manager like Antonio Conte. He likes you to work, work, work. Every day.

I strongly believe in the apprenticeship model because we see in a lot of countries the local education system is not providing talent that businesses need. So it is important that there is an alignment between what the companies need and the education system, so the education system can build the right programmes.

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

When you start the game with an ace, it's always better.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

I'm a big fan of the Premier League, but you can't say no when a club like Milan come knocking.

I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for 'Siren' to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.

Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me.

I had this awesome tennis teacher when I was 12 who was Icelandic. He looked like a Viking: long hair, and he was built like a rock and spoke with this accent.

Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

Sometimes you learn more when you get beat 4-0 than in games you won.

Everyone knows how much and how hard we train. If I hope to continue goalkeeping until I am 36 or 37, then you have to think about how I train.

Some players are more concentrated on what they will do after their football career and want to make sure their lives are financially settled. I prefer to play in big teams earn a little less money and win trophies.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

The more you play with the other players, the more you understand them and they understand you, and that's very important.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

At Wembley, it's difficult for the fans to come there and make it your home. Sometimes the stadium wasn't full because the maximum on the capacity.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

Dating is pretty hard, since I'm always on the road.

The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.

I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?